Chopsticks are one of the reasons the Chinese never invented custard.
Education isn't everything, for a start it isn't an elephant
A bird in The Strand is worth two in Shepherds Bush
Her mother was a cultivated woman - she was born in a greenhouse
Life is a long agonized illness only curable by death.
The most difficult book I have ever read was a manual on the use of iron bangles by A.J. Thompson.